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>If humans are being replaced with computers, then there will be need for fewer managers, supervisors etc. This would cause a decline in demand for people with

>If humans are being replaced with computers, then there will be need for fewer managers, supervisors etc. This would cause a decline in demand for people with "human skills" also. This doesn't cause a decline in jobs, any more than the decline of mainstream farming (90%+ of the population used to be farmers, but in the last few centuries it's less than 3%) caused the majority of the population to be unemployed. What it causes is more jobs in other areas. Or alternatively, it makes everything more profitable and therefore allows the relevant companies to bloat themselves up needlessly with more layers of management, because they can afford it.

pbhjpbhj 11y ago
Historically people moved from food generation to jobs that use up resources (energy for example) and produce goods. Western society has become consumption focussed and so the production of goods and services for consumers has swelled. But this has a natural end as the resources used to generate the goods run out. In short one might say that machines will enable us to produce even more and open even more areas of manufacture and consumption, areas that were previously unknown - we'll be in flying cars and every item of clothing will have a computer in it and ... - but that relies on infinite resources. Without sufficient resources there is a natural brake on our ability to produce out of such a crisis in jobs. Moreover there are certain costs to production that we have not paid, the current ecological state of the planet, the increased climate change, the other ecological impacts from chemical abuse (eg fracking), deforestation, stripping of raw materials - we haven't really paid for these things (proper filtering of toxins, development of renewable energy, clean-up of chemical impacts, planting of new forest, etc.) instead we've been on a relatively free ride. It's like a hoarder, they can keep being pathological and filling their house with crap but eventually they get sick and there's no more room in the house.

pbhjpbhj 11y ago

Historically people moved from food generation to jobs that use up resources (energy for example) and produce goods. Western society has become consumption focussed and so the production of goods and services for consumers has swelled. But this has a natural end as the resources used to generate the goods run out. In short one might say that machines will enable us to produce even more and open even more areas of manufacture and consumption, areas that were previously unknown - we'll be in flying cars and every item of clothing will have a computer in it and ... - but that relies on infinite resources. Without sufficient resources there is a natural brake on our ability to produce out of such a crisis in jobs. Moreover there are certain costs to production that we have not paid, the current ecological state of the planet, the increased climate change, the other ecological impacts from chemical abuse (eg fracking), deforestation, stripping of raw materials - we haven't really paid for these things (proper filtering of toxins, development of renewable energy, clean-up of chemical impacts, planting of new forest, etc.) instead we've been on a relatively free ride. It's like a hoarder, they can keep being pathological and filling their house with crap but eventually they get sick and there's no more room in the house.